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U.S. to Gift $308 Million in Aid to Taliban-Run Afghanistan

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NATHANIEL CHARLES

11 Jan 20220

2:24

The U.S. has offered Taliban-controlled Afghanistan $308 million in “humanitarian assistance” as the country struggles after barely five months of rule by the Islamist terrorist organization.

The Democrat-controlled White House has promised the cash boost in an effort to end the humanitarian crisis that followed the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal and Taliban takeover in August, 2021.

The aid will be delivered through independent humanitarian organizations to help them provide health care, emergency food and water aid, shelter, sanitisation and hygiene services, and winterization assistance, AP reports.

Afghanistan has experienced economic difficulties since the Taliban seizure of the nation.

Joe Biden said “the buck stops with me” and then proceeded to blame others for the catastrophic Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. https://t.co/0dNV21N039

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 17, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of the previous administration’s budget, which was used to fund public services such as schools and hospitals, came from the international community and has since been suspended due to the regime change.

The collective decision to not recognise the Taliban as a legitimate government has complicated aid efforts as organisations and other nations are reluctant to provide financial aid due to concerns it had the potential to fund the Taliban’s atrocities.

A Taliban fighter sits in the cockpit of an Afghan Air Force aircraft at the airport in Kabul on August 31, 2021.(Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

The United Nations has reported that 22 percent of Afghanistan’s 38 million population are living near famine and an additional 36 percent are facing acute food insecurity.

Since the Taliban takeover, the U.S. has now given more than $780 million in humanitarian aid to the former ally. Alongside this financial commitment, President Joe Biden’s White House has sent 3.3 million coronavirus vaccinations to Afghanistan, with another million pledged to be sent, AP adds.

The Taliban terrorist organization is strutting and bragging that the Biden administration has agreed to provide aid to Afghanistan. https://t.co/5X1hHMUPTY

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 12, 2021

Even as the aid flowed, reports have surfaced of a return of public executions, torture of those branded as opposition, return to the severe oppression of women and Sharia Law, in Afghanistan.

Due to the rapid and sudden nature of the American military withdrawal, the legitimate government of Afghanistan fled and millions of Afghanistan’s people have been displaced, with many travelling abroad, sacrificing whatever stability they had for a new life free of the Taliban.

 

Making Heroes of Muslim Terrorists, Slavers, and Rapists

A look at a new Turkish television series.

Tue Jan 11, 2022 

Raymond Ibrahim

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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Unlike their Western counterparts, many Muslims are fond of their heroes of the past — particularly the jihadist types who for centuries thrived on terrorizing the West.

This was recently underscored by Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean, a television series written and produced in Turkey that aired late last year, and is dedicated to highlighting the clash between Islam and Christendom — in a way, of course, that demonizes the latter and extols the former.

The highly fictionalized series revolves around four Muslim brothers and their naval exploits and battles against the Christian maritime states of the Mediterranean.

While the series portrays the brothers as great heroes who sacrificed much to “defend” the Ottoman Empire against Christian Europe, history — real, actual, recorded history — has a different tale to tell.

In brief, the four brothers began life as common Barbary pirates (“corsairs”). The eldest of these brothers, Oruch, was notoriously sadistic, and once “ripped out the throat of a Christian with his teeth and ate the tongue,” to quote historian Roger Crowley in Empires of the Sea. He also “tied the head of a Hospitaller knight to a rope and twirled it like a globe until the eyeballs popped. In Spain and southern Italy people crossed themselves at his name.”

Due to the brothers’ many successful exploits against and slave raids on Europe, they eventually caught the eye of Ottoman sultan Suleiman “the Great.” Around 1520, the sultan took one of these Barbary brother pirates, Khair al-Din Barbarossa (d. 1546), whom the series is named after, into his service and helped him prosecute an especially ferocious jihad on Europe. Claiming that “Allah had made him to frighten Christians,” Barbarossa wrought havoc along the Christian Mediterranean, rarely withdrawing without thousands of captives. In one instance, on the island of Minorca, in the midst of the devastation, he left a message pinned to the tail of a horse in which he vowed that he would not rest “until I have killed the last one of you and enslaved your women, your daughters, and your children.”

Over the following two decades, hundreds of thousands of Europeans were enslaved, so that, by 1541, “Algiers teemed with Christian captives, and it became a common saying that a Christian slave was scarce a fair barter for an onion.”

This, apparently, is what Turkey is proud of — Muslims who “defend” Islam by invading Western lands to terrorize, slaughter, and enslave its people on the “grievance” that the unrepentant Christians are infidels who refuse the summons of Islam.

Nor is this sentiment limited to an obscure movie producer and a few Turks; it’s shared all the way at the top of the Turkish hierarchy. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan habitually praises those Turkish heroes and sultans of the past who most terrorized, slaughtered, and enslaved Europeans, such as Muhammad II, the conqueror of Constantinople — and a notorious pedophile to boot, as both Turkish and European chronicles attest.

The message could not be clearer: invading and conquering neighboring peoples — not due to any real grievances, but because they are non-Muslim — with all the attending atrocities, rapes, destruction, and mass slavery, is a laudable thing, apparently to be emulated once convenient.

Nor is such thinking limited to Turkey. As one report states, “[t]he television series was a Turkish and Algerian collaboration and is also being aired in Pakistan, spreading the Islam versus Christian rhetoric to other parts of the Muslim world.”

As such, perhaps now is a fitting time to announce the forthcoming publication of my latest book: Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam. It is, in two primary ways, the antithesis of what regularly comes out of Turkey and other Muslim nations concerning the history between Islam and the West. First, it deals with Christian heroes who actually stood their ground against Islam, often in highly defiant terms — so that they are often seen as the greatest enemies of Islam’s heroes. Second, it actually offers facts, not propaganda (the book contains over one thousand end note citations, mostly to primary source references).

Preorder Defenders of the West here and learn about the true clash of civilizations without the usual Islamist/Leftist spin.

Biden Administration Provides Still More Money to UNRWA

Putting “Palestinian refugees” above all other refugees in the world.

Tue Jan 11, 2022 

Hugh Fitzgerald

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Hundreds of millions of refugees who have been created by the wars, conflicts, natural disasters, droughts, and famines since the Second World War must share a single U.N. Agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to look after their wellbeing. But there is one U.N. organization, the UN Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, that is devoted exclusively to the care and feeding of one hugely privileged group of refugees, those known as “Palestinian refugees.” Having their very own agency is not the only distinction that puts “Palestinian refugees” above all other refugees in the world. Uniquely, “Palestinian refugees” include all the descendants – children, grandchildren, and so on without end – of the original refugees; no other refugees in the world are allowed to pass on their refugee status as an inheritable trait.

The Taylor Force Act is an Act of the U.S. Congress to stop American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until the PA ceases paying stipends through the Palestinian Authority Martyr’s Fund to individuals who commit acts of terrorism and to the families of deceased terrorists. This system of stipends to imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists who were killed while carrying out their attacks is known, pejoratively and correctly, as the “Pay-For-Slay” program. The Act was signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump on March 23, 2018. Several cuts were made to the aid given to the PA, with the last one made on August 24, 2018, ending all direct American aid to the PA.

Also in August 2018, the United States ended all aid to UNRWA, cutting off $300 million. That ending of aid to UNRWA was made for two reasons. First, it was a way to express American outrage with the UNRWA’s use of schoolbooks that remain full of antisemitic passages, despite repeated promises by UNRWA that it would be revising, or replacing, those texts. It has yet to do so. Second, the Trump Administration was expressing its frustration with the unique treatment of “Palestinian refugee” status as inheritable, which has meant that the UNRWA rolls constantly expand. In ending its aid, the Trump administration was putting pressure on UNRWA to halt this inexorable increase in the number of “Palestinian refugees.”

Now, in January, the Biden Administration has just announced a payment of $99 million to UNRWA. This is in addition to the $318 million previously given to UNRWA in the 2021 fiscal year. More than $400 million has thus been provided by Washington to UNRWA, even though the antisemitic texts used in its schools remain unchanged. It has also renewed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority, even though the Pay-For-Slay program remains in force – and Mahmoud Abbas insists he will give his “last penny” to keep that program running no matter what the Americans think. The Bidenites have tried to claim that this renewed financial assistance to the PA does not violate Taylor Force because it is “humanitarian.” But this is absurd; there was no exception made in the Taylor Force Act for “humanitarian” aid. Besides, money is fungible. If you give the PA $300 million in “humanitarian aid,” that will simply free up other sums It possesses to spend on such things as anti-Israel propaganda and, especially, on the Pay-For-Slay program that rewards past, and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism.

Since the Bidenites are shameless in their violating both the letter and the spirit of the Taylor Force Act, it will be up to the Republicans in Congress, possibly with a few decent Democratic defectors, to raise holy hell about the American aid currently being given to the PA. They can take turns reading aloud, again and again – emulating Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington — the Taylor Force Act in both Houses of Congress and ask, in mock astonishment and genuine dismay, why the Biden administration is so determined to lavish largesse on the Palestinians, and so indifferent to enforcing Taylor Force, which was passed overwhelmingly by the people’s representatives. The Republicans should seek to pass an amended version of the Taylor Force Act that explicitly says there will be no exceptions made for any kind of aid, including “that which some have called “humanitarian,” as long as the Pay-For-Slay program remains.

But there is still more that Congress can do, which is to make the Taylor Force Act applicable not just to aid to the PA, but also to aid to UNRWA. Both kinds of aid, after all, have the same intended beneficiaries: Palestinians, and “Palestinian refugees.” It makes sense to pressure UNRWA by denying it support, which will understandably prompt the Agency to put its own pressure on the PA to finally put an end to the “Pay-For-Slay” program. And that result, devoutly to be wished, should chasten the o’erweening Bidenites, who thought they could simply ignore the Taylor Force Act but, in so doing, caused an infuriated Congress, as Biden and Blinken used to say about the Iran deal, to “lengthen and strengthen” it.